Urbanisation Is Associated With Reduced Genetic Diversity in Marine Fish Populations.

ABSTRACT: The benefits to humans of living by the ocean have led many coastal settlements to grow into large, densely populated cities. Large coastal cities have had considerable environmental effects on marine ecosystems through resource extraction, waste disposal, coastal development, and trade and travel routes. While our understanding of the ecological and evolutionary consequences of urbanisation for wildlife in terrestrial systems has received considerable recent attention, the consequences of urbanisation in marine systems are not well known. Using microsatellite datasets associated with published research on marine fish population genetics, we built a global database of genotypic data spanning 75,361 individuals sampled from 73 species at 1085 sample sites throughout the world's oceans. We f

SUBMITTER: Karachaliou E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11934082 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature